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NSX-T

As relative new comer to the world of coding and in an attempt to rectify this situation I started looking about for good, reliable sources for all things Powercli/API related to VMware. My 1st thoughts were to try the usual suspects like blog posts from Alan Renouf, William Lam and Chris Whal.

During my numerous searches I discovered that If you’re looking for an API, powercli example or guidance for design standards etc then https://code.vmware.com should definitely be your 1st place of call.

I’ve been really lucky over the last few weeks getting to do some deep dive workshops on NSX-T and will be blogging a lot about the good the bad and the ugly over the next few weeks (really good timing for “Blogtober” right?!)

First things first the documentation, for the moment at least, is a little bit on the light side. VMware are obviously working on the documentation as I am starting to see some more become available in the public domain but it certainly wasn’t as well documented as other GA products.

This leads onto my first topic, as I think it’s quit a big one!

I’m going to post about the new routing and switching technologies/methodologies used in NSX-T as they are VERY different from NSX-V in the next few days but for now let’s assume there is a need to move away from the well known and loved Distributed Switch (start looking up the Opaque Switch). Put simply you can’t run a vSphere Distributed Switch on a KVM host, the price for delivering a Hypervisor agnostic SDN solution means we need to introduce a new type of virtual switch.